Thanksgiving Quotes

Quotes,Happy Thanksgiving :

The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans were poorer than those who, however, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~ HU Westermayer

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you" would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set the hearts of honest men, but be careful that you do not take days, leaving out the gratitude. ~ EP Powell

So once in every year, we urge

When the day of each other,

To praise the Lord with feast and song

In gratitude for the heart.

Arthur Guiterman, the first Thanksgiving:

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God's goodness in a string of pearls His favor. Hide the dark parts, except insofar as they are emerging into the light! Give this day, thanks to the joy and gratitude! ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~ Edward Sandford Martin

Our rural ancestors, with little blessed,

At the end of the work force when the patient was resting,

Delivered on the day that housed their annual grain,

With festivals and off'rings, and a grateful strain.

Alexander Pope:

What we are talking about is a wonderful day set aside the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~ Erma Bombeck, "No One diet on Thanksgiving," November 26, 1981

Thanksgiving, after all, is an action word. ~ WJ Cameron

He who thanks but with the lips

Thanks, but in part;

Full, true Thanksgiving Day

Coming from the heart.

JA Shedd:

Thanksgiving was never meant to be silent in a day. ~ Robert Caspar Lintner,Each new day, its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

Health and food, love and friends, For thy goodness sends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-time for twelve minutes. It is no accident.

Erma Bombeck

For flowers that bloom about our feet;

The tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;

Songbirds, and the hum of bees;

For all the righteous things he hears or sees,

Heavenly Father, we thank you!

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~ Irv Kupcinet

You gave me so much,

Give one thing more - a grateful heart;

Not thankful when it pleases me;

As if Thy blessings had spare days,

But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

George Herbert:

Unthankful heart ... find no mercy, but the thankful heart sweep during the day and the magnet finds the iron, so it is, every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Some people eat meat and cane, -

And some wad eat that want it;

But we hae meat and we eat can,

Let the Lord be SAE thanks.

Robert Burns:

It is an indisputable doctrine of American cranberry sauce, a pink shade of tomato goo sugary, delicious is a necessity due to the government of the day, and that Turkey is inedible without it. ~ Alistair Cooke

Ah! on Thanksgiving Day ....

When attention-weary man seeks his mother once more,

And the lady smiles worn by the girl smiled before.

What moistens the lips and eyes that light?

Reminiscing, like the rich pumpkin pie?

John Greenleaf Whittier:

Thanksgiving comes to us from prehistoric darkness universal for all ages and all faiths. What we need to understand the errors, there is always a moment of gratitude and new beginnings. ~ J. Robert Moskin

Not a day that is ours. There is a day when all Americans, we are not self-made go back to the old house to eat cookies baking soda and it amazes me that much closer to the entrance of the old pump looks than in the past. Thanksgiving is the day that is purely American. ~ O. Henry

Remember that many have given, much is expected of us, and that true homage comes from the heart and my lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

We can only say to be alive in those moments when our hearts we are aware of the treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder

Thanksgiving Day is a celebration of peace, work and a simple life ... true popular festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of sowing and reaping, ripe for the product - and a deep, deep connection of all these things with God ~ Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)

Heap high the board with sumptuous cheer and gather to celebrate

Toast and the band Pilgrim robust whose courage never ceased.

Alice W. Brotherton:

Thanksgiving Day, all across America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~ Author Unknown

Dear Lord, we ask just one more advantage:

Peace in the hearts of all men alive

peace around the world this Thanksgiving.

Joseph Ausländer:

In the Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~ William Jennings BryanIt is literally true, as the thankless say they have something to be thankful. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, that gratitude is the key ingredient. But a grateful heart has a continual feast. ~ WJ Cameron